CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Meeting in a room where white men gathered for decades to keep them down, South Africa’s black leaders formally grasped the tiller of political power here yesterday.

South Africa's white government set the stage Tuesday for the abolition of the last pillars of apartheid, but the country's planned transition to democracy remains threatened by chronic warfare in ...

Mhlauli described the state of her husband's body during testimony she gave at the start of the inquiry in the city of ...

But the new government also vowed to take action to redress the injustices and inequalities that had developed over 40-odd years of apartheid, not to mention centuries of colonial rule.

South Africa on Monday repealed the last of the “pillars of apartheid,” the reviled body of laws that determined where people could live, congregate or own land based on the color of their ...